Sunday, April 19, 2009

Just A Piece of Literature?

While I'm not quite sure if someone already used this website (no one had used the site link in their blog) it is basically an excerpt from Fran(t)z Fanon's book The Wretched of the Earth.   Going into it with basically no knowledge about Fran(t)z Fanon except that he was an African American that was an advocator of decolonization, from his rhetoric you can definitely tell that he is a speaker/advocator calling upon his comrades and brothers to hear his words and take action.

One thing that I find particularly interesting is that he says that Europe is falling down into an abyss.  This piece was published in 1961 which was right smack in the middle of the Cold War.  It is almost imposing a doomsday thought into those that are reading his piece.

Fanon says that the only colony to catch up with Europe is now the monster superpower the United States, and that therefore his goal is to have his own country catch up in the same way to "create a third Europe."  This seems fairly different than the decolonial advocate that I thought we were supposed to be researching.  Unless of course he is arguing that colonialism hinders the places that are colonized so that when they are free they catch up into more superpowers that can get involved in more affairs/wars.

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